The other day I had bought a Seagate SSHD hard disc for my Lenovo Thinkpad T61. This kind of drive combines the speed advantages of a solid state disc with the capacity of a standard hard disc. I made a backup of my former 640GB hard disc with Acronis True Image and restored this image onto the new SSHD. After the first start with the new SSHD everything looks quite normal. But after a few weeks I recognized that Windows runs no updates anymore. Additionally the search function did not work, too. After several unsuccessfully recovery methods (including the fix it tools from Microsoft), I had to find other possibilities to fix this problem.

So I’ve started the Windows Event Manager „EventVWR.exe“…

… and found several error messages under the category “Windows Logs” -> “Application” from the sources „CAPI2“ and „Search“.

The greatest amount of error messages came from the source “CAPI2” with the Event-ID 257 and the messages itself were related to the module „ESENT“:

There are several instructions to fix this ESENT problems. Most of these instructions explain how to delete the damaged catalog file manually, but sadly this didn’t work for me, too.

After that I decided to install windows 7 anew because I wanted to be sure that my problems were not based on a possible damaged True Image file. After the installation has been processed the error occurred again.

So I had to find a different solution…

After a little investigation I found another possible source for my problems in a forum. Some users wrote about the same problems based on driver problems with the Intel SATA chipset ICH8R which is the chipset in my T61.

The driver I had installed was the newest official version. Neither Intel nor Lenovo delivered newer drivers but I found the solution on the support site of HP (!).

After this fix worked fine for my T61 I bought a SSHD drive from Toshiba and installed it in my T400 (chipset ICH9R) afterwards. The problems occurred also on the T400 and additionally I got boring messages from the Windows Genuine Check which told me that some of my windows files were damaged that they were very pleased to present me an offer to buy a new windows 7 version for cheaply 109,- €.

While everything works now fine except the boring Genuine messages I decided to get rid of these messages. I found a guide to deactivate the notifications and method 1 worked fine for me:

I can remember my first mobile phone from Samsung. It was a Omnia PRO B7610. I was wandering about that this phone could only be charged when it was connected to a powered on PC. All other USB chargers didn’t work with this phone. The only possibility to charge the Omnia seems to use an original Samsung charger which was expensive.

I decided to save my money and do some investigations. On my way through the USB universe I found out, that the USB specification defines that USB charger should use a short circuit on their data pins in order to identify themselves as non-intelligent chargers.

I don’t give any warranty to the following guide:
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You need a soldering iron, solder, a few screwdriver, maybe a cutter and a multimeter. Open your USB charger and find the 4 pins which connects the usb port to the charger. After that you have to solder the middle 2 pins together (see the red curl on the following picture). You should check with your multimeter that the solder does not affect the outer pins. Now your Samsung mobile should charge on your cheap USB charger very well. After you have tested this, you can assemble the charger. I’ve heard that other mobile phones have the same “features”, so this may work with these mobiles too.

Today I’ve deactivated my old english homepage. Next job is to translate my c2x-cmd & c2x-wizard documentation into english. If you think that both tools are self-explanatory you can go to my csv2xml page. Otherwise you might use the post informer of my homepage to be informed.